Rise of Australia

Chapter 400 Victory on the Eastern Front, Attack on the Western Front

Although both the Allied Powers and the Allied Powers have new allies to join, compared to the Allied Powers and many small and medium-sized countries, the Allies only win over Turkey and Bulgaria, which seems a bit isolated.

As the only new power to join the war and a former member of the Allied Powers, Italy's behavior of rebelling against the camp during the war was a bit contemptuous, but the Italians didn't think so.

The Italian government proudly announced that because the country and the people have found a way to lose less in the war, they can gain more benefits than before.

But in any case, since Italy has joined the Allied Powers, it is a member of the Allied Powers and an ally of Australasia.

It's just that compared with Australasia, a country that joined the Allied Powers early, Italy's position in the Allied Powers is rather embarrassing, and it is not at the decision-making level of the Allied Powers.

Even Britain and France still used the name they used a year ago when they promoted it, that is, the four major powers of the Allied Powers.

This also made the Italians determined to make a big vote, and then change the existing layout of the Allied Powers, which is also to strive for more benefits for themselves after the war.

With the help of Italy and other countries, the Allies' general offensive on the east-west front has also become even bigger.

In the southern area of ​​the western front, 50 Italian troops will join the battle to eliminate the threat of the German army and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the southern area.

On the Eastern Front, while Romania, Montenegro, Greece and other countries are attacking Bulgaria, they will also send some troops to cooperate with Serbia to resist the attack of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

With the help of these Balkan countries, Serbia can attract a considerable part of the Austro-Hungarian army.

This will also greatly reduce the number of Austro-Hungarian troops faced by the Russian army on the Eastern Front. The Russian army can safely deal with the Germans without worrying that their rear will be attacked by the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The first to attack was Russia.After learning that Russia was willing to launch a large-scale offensive, Britain and France generously fulfilled their unpromised promises, supported Russia with a large amount of weapons, equipment and strategic materials, and exempted part of Russia's loans.

In addition, the materials transported from Australasia were also transported from Vladivostok to the front line. After obtaining enough weapons, equipment and strategic materials, the Russian General Staff also had the confidence to launch a large-scale offensive to advance to the Eastern Front.

On May 1915, 5, after all the materials were mobilized to the front line, the Russian General Staff officially ordered the start of the next round of large-scale battles.

First, Grand Duke Nicholas transferred the Second Army in the Northwest from the Narew and Neman Rivers to Warsaw, and the Fourth, Fifth and Ninth Armies in the Southwest from the San River to Warsaw to Sandome day lot.

After Galicia defeated the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the next goal of the Russians was obvious, which was to invade southeastern Germany and at the same time recover the Polish region occupied by Germany.

In order to deal with the danger from the hundreds of thousands of Russian troops, Germany has also formulated corresponding combat plans, such as carrying out assaults on Warsaw and Ivangorod from the Krakow and Częstochowa areas, in an attempt to defeat the Russian army in the Southwest. The northern flank of the front detoured to the rear of the Russian army.

Germany used the newly formed Ninth Army and the First Army of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a total of more than 31 people, to implement this plan.

On the Russian side, the southwestern side and the Warsaw area have more than 50 defenders, which has a clear advantage in numbers.

On May 1915, 5, the Russian Fourth and Ninth Armies successfully encountered the Austro-Hungarian First Army and the German Ninth Army near the mouth of the Vistula and San rivers.

The enemy was extremely jealous when they met, and the four armies immediately began to exchange fire on a large scale. The gunfire rang throughout the day without any tendency to stop.

Because of the geographical disadvantages, the Austro-Hungarian and German armies tried to cross the Vistula and San rivers forcibly, but they were all repelled by the powerful firepower of the Russian army.

In order to change its own decline, the German army decided to change the original plan and dispatched the 17th and 20th armies and the mixed army to form an army group, directly bypassing the Russian fourth and ninth armies, and forcibly capturing Warsaw.

Geographically, as long as Warsaw is occupied, these Russian troops will be cut off.

The next day, May 5, the newly reorganized army group successfully arrived in Warsaw and launched an offensive.

The Russians received word that the Fourth and Fifth Armies had begun to retreat across the Vistula by force.

On the other hand, the Russian Second Army arrived west of Warsaw and defended the flank of the Warsaw defenders.

During the three days from May 5th to May 5th, the Russian army, Germany, and the Austro-Hungarian army launched a fierce offensive. The number of deaths on both sides reached tens of thousands every day, and the number of casualties started in the tens of thousands.

On May 5, the German army with heavy losses withdrew from the Warsaw area, and the Russian army successfully defended Warsaw.

This is not over yet. Under the order of Grand Duke Nicholas, the Russian army opened up a new landing field in Ivangorod, which is also the second battlefield of the Eastern Front.

The opening of this new front made the offensive of the German army weakened instantly.It is impossible for the German army not to guard against its own flank, which distracted the frontal German army and had to divide its troops to its own flank.

The German offensive weakened, and the Russian army took over the banner of the offensive, switching from defense to offense, and launched a fierce attack on the German army from the Singogiyevsk, Warsaw, Ivangorod, and Sandomierz areas.

At this time, the German army was exhausted, and after repeated retreats, it had cut off contact with the Austro-Hungarian First Army.

However, the First Army of the Austro-Hungarian Empire wanted to support the German army in the war, but it strayed into the siege of the Russian army. In the end, it suffered heavy losses and the entire army was defeated.

To borrow a sentence from Ludendorff: "On the 11th, the retreat was ordered, but this retreat was completely involuntary. Our situation is already very critical. Now it seems that the Russian army is about to invade Poznan, Silesia and Moravi. subregion."

In fact, Ludendorff's judgment was very correct. After the success of the initial battle, the German army rushed to the west and southwest to attack. The four-nation coalition forces on the battlefield, end this war as soon as possible.

The Russians have great ambitions. After the initial victory in this battle, Russia even has a plan to invade Berlin to end the war.

If it wasn't for Grand Duke Nicholas' excuse to cooperate with the Western Front Army and not blindly advance and delay, I am afraid that Nicholas II would really make a plan for the army to attack with all its strength and conquer Berlin.

Although the German army's offensives on the western and eastern fronts have repeatedly failed, and no one can guarantee that Berlin will be conquered at this time, the German army still has the power to fight.

The battle on the Eastern Front was named Warsaw-Ivangorod because it was fought near these two areas.

This battle played a vital role in the Eastern Front. Russia dispatched up to 80 troops (including Warsaw and other area defenders), facing the German and Austrian troops of more than 30, and achieved a hearty victory.

Although the Russian side suffered nearly 10 casualties, judging from the results of this battle, the 10 casualties are worthwhile.

More importantly, after this battle, the German army experienced a disastrous defeat on the eastern and western fronts, which not only broke the myth of the highest combat effectiveness of the German army, but also allowed many countries, including Russia, to see the hope of directly defeating Germany , The experience has also made some forces in Germany lose confidence, and the enthusiasm of the Germans for war seems not to be so high.

Soon after the Russians launched their campaigns, the campaigns on the Western Front followed suit.

The Australasian army was divided into two parts. The Second Guards Division and the Third Regular Division acted independently. Britain and France mobilized two more divisions to form a mixed army, which was commanded by Commander Martin to protect the flanks of the French Army.

The huge indigenous army of more than 40 was mobilized to the frontal battlefield to act as cannon fodder for the coalition attack.

The indigenous army was indeed used in this way, and Martin, the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, had no complaints about such a plan. After all, Britain and France also mobilized two main divisions.

On May 1915, 5, with an order from the French General Command, the Western Front campaign began in full swing.

The first move is the center line, where the Australasian Expeditionary Force is also here. On the afternoon of May 5, the two French armies and the Australasian Expeditionary Force combined nearly 7 combat troops (85 main force, 40 indigenous troops) marched towards Alsace and Lorraine, and started the campaign to regain lost ground. Second shot.

Immediately afterwards, on the next day, a French group army, a British expeditionary force with a combined army of nearly 50 people, and the current remaining Belgian army of about 8 people set out from northern France in a mighty manner, with the goal of regaining the French border and the Belgian part fortress.

The battle in the southern region was the last to start, where France only dispatched one army group to cover the Italian army.

The Italian army dispatched a full 50 troops to launch a fierce offensive against the Austro-Hungarian Empire, conquering the disputed areas between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Italy.

The scale of the battle on the Western Front was larger than that on the Eastern Front. On the part of the Allied Powers alone, nearly 200 million troops participated in the battle.

If you count the German army, there are more than 300 million people desperately fighting on the Western Front alone.

In order to deal with this offensive, Germany has pulled out all its money, including various Krupp cannons, airships produced by Zeppelin, aircraft with no actual combat performance, and even cars with some simple steel plates And trucks, send whatever is useful to the battlefield, which is the current status quo in Germany.

In order to deal with the German airship, the Allies also took out their own airship that had been in the dust for half a year.

In fact, when the war just broke out, countries used airships with great interest, but soon discovered that this kind of airship was of little practical significance, because the enemy also had airships, and after the two airships met, they basically lost both sides.

Because the airship cannot give the enemy a technological lead, this makes it difficult for the British and French airships to perform combat missions after meeting the German airships.

The current airship is too fragile, and it will basically crash when hit by the enemy's weapon.After dozens of airship operators were killed or injured, European countries generally chose to hide the airship, or put it directly in the warehouse to drop ashes, then transport materials in the rear, and occasionally detect intelligence and the like.

Because of this battle, the airship was able to participate in the war again, and it was the kind that the whole army dispatched.

Britain, France, Australasia and Italy combined have nearly 300 airships, far ahead of the 100 airships owned by Germany.

In addition, there are not many countries with relatively backward models of aircraft. At present, on the battlefield of the Western Front in World War I, flying objects in the sky can often be seen, large or small, showing the technological progress brought about by the war.

It has to be admitted that war is the period with the fastest development of science and technology.According to Arthur's understanding, Britain and France have improved the current airships, and are about to develop a new generation of airships and put them into production.

In terms of aircraft, Britain and France have also re-emphasized, and are already conducting joint research on military aircraft.

Although I don't know how the progress of Germany is, but referring to the black technology that Germany frequently produced in World War I in history, the progress of Germany's research on airships and aircraft will not be slow.

Conservatively, Australasian aircraft should be ready for combat soon.After countries pay more attention to aircraft, Australasia no longer needs to hide its aircraft.

Even if Australasia continues to hide, it will not stop the progress of the development of aircraft by Britain, France and Germany.

Instead of this, it is better to make the aircraft debut in advance to gain a certain advantage in the war.

Then sell a large number of aircraft that are obviously backward, earn a lot of profits from Britain and France, and provide more impetus for aircraft research in Australasia.

For Britain, France, and Germany, will they achieve curve overtaking in aircraft research and catch up with the progress of Australasia's aircraft research.

This status quo will not appear for at least a decade.Arthur has been planning the layout of the aircraft for several years, or even ten years, and Australasia has already attracted more than one-third of the world's aviation power, airship, and aircraft manufacturing talents.

Unless Britain and France can always work together, there may be hope of catching up with Australasia's aircraft development speed in a short period of time.

However, judging from some contradictions in the distribution of interests between Britain and France, after the war, the relationship between Britain and France will not be so close, and some contradictions will also arise.

However, after the end of World War I, Britain and France were in a period of weakness, and the possibility of large-scale conflicts between Britain and France was almost zero.

Under the maintenance of Australasia, interest organizations such as the Allies should be able to maintain until World War II. Australasia, which is in the Allies, can also rely on the advantages brought by the Allies to gain more international status and benefits.

Among other things, the international status of the United States after World War I was not necessarily higher than that of Australasia.On the one hand, it is the fear and defense of Britain and France. On the other hand, the United States is not a member of the Allied Powers. Facing a behemoth like the Allied Powers, the United States alone seems a little weak.

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